Gay groups seek to stop California initiative to repeal marriage rights
”If enacted, (the November initiative) would eviscerate the principle of equal citizenship for gay and lesbian people and strip the courts of their authority to enforce basic constitutional guarantees…. [The measure will] destabilize our Constitution and our basic government plan … by establishing that any group may be deprived of equal protection and fundamental rights through a simple majority vote. ”
Stephen Bomse, lawyer for Equality California and other groups that are entering into a lawsuit that hopes to derail the November voter initiative to make gay marriage illegal in the the state again. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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